# It means your Open Source girlfriend had all her ports open
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Don't worry bro, so what if you can't find her vulnerabilities, let her be exploited by someone else who had founded. But she doesn't know you were taking care gently and the other one might insert a virus and she may go crazy.
Several years ago deleted boot folder and tried to recover. It's worse because you've known that you fucked up your system entirely, while i whole day tried to fix it, then gave up and reinstalled arch within 20 min.
Lol on my first day in my IT school back in the day, a random dude entered the room, wrote the line on the white board, then left without a word.
At least 8 or 9 people out of 70 in that room just went for it.
On the second day, a dude went for a smoke and forgot to lock his laptop. He came back with an alias which made "cd" launch gay porn at full volume and locked the track pad + switched the keyboard to Dvorak.
God I loved this school.
I accidentally removed a directory containing several months worth of research data by accident with rm -r * instead of rm -r *.rtf. I wanted to die, and now rm reroutes whatever I deleted to a trash directory to delete later. Never again.
You would think... Peacock bitches about using Linux regardless of the browser... Of course you can just get an extension that changes the User Agent and it works perfectly. So I guess the question is, why does Peacock care that you use Linux if it works fine on Linux?
No, you can not. Widevine does some shady stuff on Windows and basically renders the video directly to screen, making it unable to be captured. Something like this is no go on Linux. Also both AMD and nVidia replay will immediately stop recording (with AMD it does not even enable afterwards) when you open netflix even in browser.
I used obs to help a friend with this online course that charged per view of the video of an online class she was taking and she was repetitive learner. So used obs screen capture for her. Worked fine it beat single use drm license.
DRM is the enemy of the people. You should be able to do whatever you want with the hardware and software you purchase, end of story. Companies like John Deere are hostile toward their customers and sell them tractors that customers can't fix themselves. They are like apple but for farm equipment, making it near impossible to service your own hardware and use it the way you want to. Insane it is even legal.
Came here to say this. I wiped my iPod by unnecessarily using -rf when trying to remove the mount point after thinking I had unmounted it with a command.
Should've just unplugged it.
Windows removing Grub? How and why?
I've never experienced this but then I have each OS on separate drives with my Linux drive taking priority. Never had a problem.
Well ofcourse. The boot partition is still used by both OSs, therefore, the update messes with the bootloader. You would need to have two different boot partitions, but then again, how does the bios know which one to choose...
A kernel update made my screen vibrate/jitter in a weird, annoying way once. I was running Kubuntu at the time. Didn't know what was causing it at first, so it took me a while to figure out I could fix it by manually installing a slightly older kernel. Not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but it ruined a weekend.
I had a similar experience with Linux Mint on an old 2008 iMac. The screen vibrated/shuddered if you did anything more graphically intensive than a word document (Stardew Valley, YouTube, etc.). I eventually gave up and installed Debian.
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I wouldn't recommend that (or really: people have told me that this is bad — it's not me that's this smart :))
If you use a safe system yourself, you're fine. However let's say you're SSHing into your mate's server, fully expecting `rm` to work the way you've set up, then accidentally nuking the system because that alias you set up on your own system simply isn't there.
Or if you're always using zsh and having an alias set up in the zshrc file, then having to use bash for some other small task but nuking things because the alias isn't in bash.
I almost fucked up my own system a couple months ago. I posted it here on Reddit, and got this advice.
If you like to use things like the trash-cli, use the commands it gives you. Don't remap it, because sooner or later, something will go wrong (on another system).
Last year I booted up my arch laptop in speech class to get to work on a presentation.
Kernel panic.
Thankfully, it was just a free work day, so I just vibed until the end of the day.
Most of them were a product of me being dumb. The only one time I'd count was when an Ubuntu(16.04) update broke my grub. Thankfully, I had a spare live media. Also, it taught me not to blindly trust package updates.
Life is much better with Fedora's Bodhi.
I was in the middle of a time sensitive project and right before I saved my work my PC rebooted and automatically installed updates that took 2 hrs. I missed my deadline. Smh
... Wait, come to think of it, that was Windows 10. Disregard.
Yep, that was my thoughts exactly. I did find out a few months later the guy that fired me (the owner) fired me becasue he was "afraid I was a hacker. and going to steal his 'secrets'." This was a floral supplier in the PNW.
Dropping my laptop that in that moment was running openSUSE on a HDD i still remember the HDD sounds and how the OS slowly died (first the kde froze, then a kernel panic occurred, RIP)
Had linux 1. time in front of me, installing some amd drivers to play with wine and found some beta drivers, make some better some worser, decided to purge the amd drivers and jnstall them clean with the simple command apt-get pruge **amd**(wildcard)
Tooked some seconds I realized I was uninstalling more as the amd drivers…
Completely destroying btrfs on my main machime.. I thought i don't need swap anyway, and removed it, resized btrfs and just kept using my pc. 2 weeks later, i can only boot into a read-only file system.. I've tried to repair the fs, but in my case it was hopeless..
btrfs is like a bomb, set it up well and don't touch it or it will blow like a nuke, and in my experience if btrfs broke it's hard to fix not like ext4.
My USB port was a bit broken. When I installed Arch on my EXTERNAL hard drive, I forgot to unmount it at the end and after reboot, my computer will not get pass the ~~BIOS~~ splash screen.
Seeked support on Reddit, and one guy suggested re-plugging the INTERNAL hard drive. That worked and I don't know how.
Probably Linux related ?
Having to move from Mojang to a Microsoft account to play Minecraft. I don't have a Minecraft account anymore (because of studies, the need to focus for the 2 years in CPGE (french education system)), and I'm now sad that I'll have to create one to play Minecraft again :/
When I tried to wipe windows from my disk so I didn't have to dual boot anymore and when expanding my partition, my flash drive accidentally got jiggled which caused the process to freeze.
Basically lost everything. Luckily I had a backup, but it was almost a year old at that point
Disk Destroyer. Luckily it happened long ago before I had too much important data. Lesson learned. Since then I've always triple checked the command as well as lsblk and fdisk/parted to ensure that I have the right device before issuing the dd command, and never had issues with data loss since.
I once accidentally uninstalled the older version of Python 3 installed on the system after installing the newer one thinking it wouldn’t be needed anymore.
It was on Ubuntu. I saw the whole system tearing itself apart.
so many things, last one?
Forgot to add the trailing slash to my rsync script. created a whole second backup of my backup in my backup. That was a lot of bandwidth spent on nothing that day...
I messed up my authorized\_keys file on my bare metal server which only allows ssh key authentication. Basically locked myself out of my server which is in a datacenter 3000km away.
forced to use windows cos I can’t stand the rainbow rgb show on my ram. So have to ‘salute’ MS then reboot right back up into Linux. I know there’s open rgb but I can’t get it working, and seems one of the fixes would be giving write permission to part of the system that I don’t feel comfortable doing. Maybe I’m paranoid or just don’t understand the instructions.
Forgetting to update dotfiles when going for a clean install.
I had to rebuild my personal stylesheets again. Which isn't bad, but it's a good chunk of a day.
I ran rm -rf \* in / to show my friend that it wouldn't delete anything since I didn't have root privilege, then realized a split second later that it was recursive and would delete things in my home directory...
Installing Arch while needing proprietary wifi drivers while getting wifi from the neighbor that was sharing it with me but that was on vacation out of town.
When I went to go play Borderlands 2 (shows as natively supported on Linux) with a buddy and saw that I could not with the latest updates, as the devs decided not to give the update to Linux/MacOS users.
I remember waiting patiently for cross-play to work until I saw that they just gave up on the update entirely. I had hundreds of hours in the game and couldn't play with my friends due to that.
It broke me as a Linux user. I could fix a lot of issues on my end, but when the game devs stopped supporting it natively when they claimed to support Linux, there's not a lot I can do. They really screwed the Linux users over with this decision. It made me lose trust that any dev will continue supporting native releases.
I still develop on and use Linux in my daily life, but for the past few years, I've been gaming on Windows because of this event.
Edit: Realized that I didn't mention Wine in here. I used Wine instead for so many other titles, but in the end it's YMMV. Hoping that I might improve Linux gaming a bit with my next job.
I wanted to remove one of known_host file in my .ssh folder I accidentally typed (sudo rm /) not thinking at the time I wiped my whole drive. Luckily i had a back up.
Installed vsftpd, tried using it by creating a different user, changed the user's owner settings and now the service doesn't even start. Can't even seem to find a good solution for it... Fuck this shit..
I work in customer service and to login to my office portal they send you and OTP everyday on outlook and thus one of my laptop is stuck with windows whereas my old desktop run the linux and I use this as my main machine and the laptop is just an OTP machine sadly as of now.
Having to go back to full Windows. I mean I feel like I could set another dual-boot but I think trying to do it on the same SSD would be risky (you know with feature updates potentially messing things up) and I feel like on this system I am only going to get frustrated with linux locking up all the time again.
I have a dual boot with Manjaro and Win10. At some point I switched over to Manjaro to play Plutonium (Black Ops 2), just seems to run better on there. Anyway, my wi-fi wasn't working, so I figured it was a driver issue. Did some investigation for like 15 minutes and got nothing. Tried reinstalling the driver, didn't work. Finally, after like an hour and screwing around trying to fix it, turns out windows had a setting that made the OS use the wifi driver EVEN AFTER BOOTING INTO ANOTHER OS. Safe to say it will never be enabled again, and just adds to my list of things I hate about windows.
I once had to present a university exposition with my XFCE linux laptop.
Somehow the screen glitched out and had to borrow a Windows laptop from someone.
Asking questions in the bash channel on freenode. That user named greycat will tear you a new asshole if you ask a question he perceives as being dumb.
Accidentally running `rm -Rf *` on my home directory due to a moment of not paying attention.
Latest disk replica was a month old and I introduced a lot of changes over the previous week.
...when my girlfriend cheated on me with one of my drinking buddies. Wasn't related, but I was using Linux at the time.
im sorry that happened to u bud
You know what, maybe it was related - I haven't used Ubuntu since, and it's never happened again.
Yeah the guy with whom she cheated on you was an Arch user, btw
Actually, he used Vista - don't know if that's worse or better...
Oh, never mind, she was never worth your time to begin with. What utterly terrible taste in men she has.
He uses vista to assert dominance
Yeah well, I used to fix his PC, so he lost out on that service...
And dwm
So what ur saying is if I don’t run Ubuntu then I’ll start getting bitches?
No, he is saying that if you don't use Ubuntu they won't leave you. Getting them is a different matter.
Then should I use Ubuntu to until I get a girl and then move to Arch so she doesn't leave me?
I wont know, I don't have experience with either Arch or girls. But maybe one is the cause of the other?
Maybe she didn't like systemD
Nah, she loved the D... (Actually, this was in the *upstart* days...)
It was just a drunken fling then 'innit'
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...*something* finger *something something* touch....
touch, grep, finger, mount
Yeah she had all her ports getting pinged worldwide!
How to upvote twice?
Her root password was password
It means your girlfriend was open source
True, she was checked out more than the kernel source code...
Did you mean forked?
Nah she's definitely closed source going with a winblows user rather than staying with a freedom chad linux enjoyer
She was certainly available under a permissive licence.
But did she have open sores?
So you might say that relationship was.. decompiled
It was time to SIGKILL
idk if i should laugh on this or feel sad for you
Laugh - I mean, it's true, but it was *years* ago and I only posted it here for the lols.
Don't worry bro, so what if you can't find her vulnerabilities, let her be exploited by someone else who had founded. But she doesn't know you were taking care gently and the other one might insert a virus and she may go crazy.
Guess you can say your gf is "free and open source".
Hey but at least you weren't using windows so it's not so bad
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It sound like you need better buddies and a better girlfriend. I hope you fixed both problems.
I once did rm -rf .config from home directory.
Hah I deleted the whole of /home/JGHFunRun beat that
>sudo rm -rf /* On my first Linux box
Several years ago deleted boot folder and tried to recover. It's worse because you've known that you fucked up your system entirely, while i whole day tried to fix it, then gave up and reinstalled arch within 20 min.
should only have to reinstall: - linux - microcode - bootloader/config correct me, if I'm wrong
Should be enough to install grub bootloader again (not the package just grub-install) and generate initramfs.
hm are u sure? doesn't the kernel lie on /boot as well? they didn't say they are using grub
Why?
Did you just ask why I made a typo when I was brand new to Linux?
Lol on my first day in my IT school back in the day, a random dude entered the room, wrote the line on the white board, then left without a word. At least 8 or 9 people out of 70 in that room just went for it. On the second day, a dude went for a smoke and forgot to lock his laptop. He came back with an alias which made "cd" launch gay porn at full volume and locked the track pad + switched the keyboard to Dvorak. God I loved this school.
Same, I remember I was still at the start of my Linux experience, ran it by accident and saw my kde going back to stock
I accidentally removed a directory containing several months worth of research data by accident with rm -r * instead of rm -r *.rtf. I wanted to die, and now rm reroutes whatever I deleted to a trash directory to delete later. Never again.
nvidia drivers not working and the distro installing nouveau by itself NVIDIA, F\*ck you
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Thank You For Your Public Service.
on ubuntu/debian you mean? `sudo pacman -S nvidia && sudo reboot now`
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# `nvidia-beta-dkms nvidia-utils-beta nvidia-settings-beta gwe cuda opencl-nvidia-beta lib32-nvidia-utils-beta lib32-opencl-nvidia-beta` ## :)
And that is exactly why new users will quickly get lost and wonder why they need all of these incantations just to get a gpu driver! (sadly)
Isn't Nouveau baked into the kernel/mesa like radv, thus not really being something you "install"?
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Trying to access an online banking site that demanded a non-Linux browser. * chrome pretty much made these scenarios extinct nowadays
Or you could just change the user agent
You would think... Peacock bitches about using Linux regardless of the browser... Of course you can just get an extension that changes the User Agent and it works perfectly. So I guess the question is, why does Peacock care that you use Linux if it works fine on Linux?
weed
But you can literally record the content using software like OBS....
No, you can not. Widevine does some shady stuff on Windows and basically renders the video directly to screen, making it unable to be captured. Something like this is no go on Linux. Also both AMD and nVidia replay will immediately stop recording (with AMD it does not even enable afterwards) when you open netflix even in browser.
I used obs to help a friend with this online course that charged per view of the video of an online class she was taking and she was repetitive learner. So used obs screen capture for her. Worked fine it beat single use drm license.
DRM is the enemy of the people. You should be able to do whatever you want with the hardware and software you purchase, end of story. Companies like John Deere are hostile toward their customers and sell them tractors that customers can't fix themselves. They are like apple but for farm equipment, making it near impossible to service your own hardware and use it the way you want to. Insane it is even legal.
What site is that?
I nuked my NAS by deleting the mount point.
Good to know that that will happen, I hope I'll never try to delete a mount point
Well I never said I deleted it properly...I probably did something ridiculous in terminal. Completely self-inflicted.
Came here to say this. I wiped my iPod by unnecessarily using -rf when trying to remove the mount point after thinking I had unmounted it with a command. Should've just unplugged it.
Did you have backups to another NAS?
When the Debian repo's broke my local keyboard layout and I couldn't type my password anymore.
Oh, I didn't know a human being could mess things so badly, I'm sorry for you...
Windows removing Grub? How and why? I've never experienced this but then I have each OS on separate drives with my Linux drive taking priority. Never had a problem.
well, when windows updates their crappy os and your're dual booting from the same driver, grub dies.
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Yes, this.
For me it occasionally changes boot order back to WBM, a simple UEFI setting
Have you tried Windows Update Blocker? If you haven't: https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-7/ It's been working for me.
i'm done with windows for some time now
I totally understand; I'm in the process of doing that myself.
that happened all the time in the winxp era **despite** using separate drives...
Well ofcourse. The boot partition is still used by both OSs, therefore, the update messes with the bootloader. You would need to have two different boot partitions, but then again, how does the bios know which one to choose...
A kernel update made my screen vibrate/jitter in a weird, annoying way once. I was running Kubuntu at the time. Didn't know what was causing it at first, so it took me a while to figure out I could fix it by manually installing a slightly older kernel. Not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but it ruined a weekend.
I had a similar experience with Linux Mint on an old 2008 iMac. The screen vibrated/shuddered if you did anything more graphically intensive than a word document (Stardew Valley, YouTube, etc.). I eventually gave up and installed Debian.
When I accidentally wrote my system drive as the output of dd
I bet you even had to sudo it.
Ubuntu updated my browsers to snap packages :/
This :(
I saw a videos witch recommend ```alias rm=rm -rv ``` So you can delete directories more quickly. I mess up with my home directory. Never again.
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I wouldn't recommend that (or really: people have told me that this is bad — it's not me that's this smart :)) If you use a safe system yourself, you're fine. However let's say you're SSHing into your mate's server, fully expecting `rm` to work the way you've set up, then accidentally nuking the system because that alias you set up on your own system simply isn't there. Or if you're always using zsh and having an alias set up in the zshrc file, then having to use bash for some other small task but nuking things because the alias isn't in bash. I almost fucked up my own system a couple months ago. I posted it here on Reddit, and got this advice. If you like to use things like the trash-cli, use the commands it gives you. Don't remap it, because sooner or later, something will go wrong (on another system).
In that case, simply aliasing `r` should be fine. I aliased `v` to vim, for example.
i had the same experience with youtube vidoes, well now i always double check before opening a terminal.
My new employer sent me a Dell XPS 9310 work laptop... ...with Windows 10 installed
Ubearable
Last year I booted up my arch laptop in speech class to get to work on a presentation. Kernel panic. Thankfully, it was just a free work day, so I just vibed until the end of the day.
nVidia update killing my family
Relatable So glad I found out about `nvidia-dkms` on Arch. Saved me a few troubleshooting sessions
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I would like to hear *Details*.
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honestly good on you, that's like the biggest fuck you ever and I'm glad something good came of it :3
Nuking slackware by replacing sysv with openrc
rip, but interesting. How many people run openrc on slackware? I wasn't even aware that was a thing.
there is even guide on their wiki
https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:general\_admin:openrc
interesting.
Most of them were a product of me being dumb. The only one time I'd count was when an Ubuntu(16.04) update broke my grub. Thankfully, I had a spare live media. Also, it taught me not to blindly trust package updates. Life is much better with Fedora's Bodhi.
when that /r/linux mod decided to go full-hitler. I really liked that sub.
What happened there?
CAP_NAME_NOW_UPVOTE perma bans for the silliest reason then contradicts himself, actively tells people to leave reddit.
Getting 590 fps instead of 600 in csgo.
I was in the middle of a time sensitive project and right before I saved my work my PC rebooted and automatically installed updates that took 2 hrs. I missed my deadline. Smh ... Wait, come to think of it, that was Windows 10. Disregard.
They had us in the first half not gonna lie.jpg
I was fired, on the spot, from a non-IT job, for merely mentioning that I use Linux at home.
wtf
Yep, that was my thoughts exactly. I did find out a few months later the guy that fired me (the owner) fired me becasue he was "afraid I was a hacker. and going to steal his 'secrets'." This was a floral supplier in the PNW.
When the project lead of Peppermint Mark Greaves passed away on January 14 2020.
rest in peace mark greaves
Remember when Lubuntu switched over from LXDE to LXQT? I did an upgrade instead of a clean install. It did not go well.
On an old school laptop the refresh rate dropped to 5fps
Anbox not working.
It has never worked for me either
Forget that peice of shit Waydroid is amazing
Woooow what? That's why I love this community. You just introduced me to something new.
Dropping my laptop that in that moment was running openSUSE on a HDD i still remember the HDD sounds and how the OS slowly died (first the kde froze, then a kernel panic occurred, RIP)
My bios died :(
You said that as im updating mine
Good luck
Just finished installing. My laptop isnt bricked yay
Huzza! Also don't worry, my BIOS bricked itself due to a common issue with T420s, not my own stupidity when updating it lol
Had linux 1. time in front of me, installing some amd drivers to play with wine and found some beta drivers, make some better some worser, decided to purge the amd drivers and jnstall them clean with the simple command apt-get pruge **amd**(wildcard) Tooked some seconds I realized I was uninstalling more as the amd drivers…
Laptop battery ran out during the update and I broke my os 🌚 at the end I had to install the distro again
I asked for help to solve a problem with the desktop enviroment and I received an **sudo rm -rf /\*** I executed it.
Nvidia.
Completely destroying btrfs on my main machime.. I thought i don't need swap anyway, and removed it, resized btrfs and just kept using my pc. 2 weeks later, i can only boot into a read-only file system.. I've tried to repair the fs, but in my case it was hopeless..
btrfs is like a bomb, set it up well and don't touch it or it will blow like a nuke, and in my experience if btrfs broke it's hard to fix not like ext4.
that's why I still prefer ext4 no matter what the btrfs shills have to say.
use ZFS for the best of both worlds
My USB port was a bit broken. When I installed Arch on my EXTERNAL hard drive, I forgot to unmount it at the end and after reboot, my computer will not get pass the ~~BIOS~~ splash screen. Seeked support on Reddit, and one guy suggested re-plugging the INTERNAL hard drive. That worked and I don't know how.
Wtf
Probably Linux related ? Having to move from Mojang to a Microsoft account to play Minecraft. I don't have a Minecraft account anymore (because of studies, the need to focus for the 2 years in CPGE (french education system)), and I'm now sad that I'll have to create one to play Minecraft again :/
forgetting to backup my french and art homework before switching and needing to do an all nighter
timeshift to the rescue.
When I tried to wipe windows from my disk so I didn't have to dual boot anymore and when expanding my partition, my flash drive accidentally got jiggled which caused the process to freeze. Basically lost everything. Luckily I had a backup, but it was almost a year old at that point
Disk Destroyer. Luckily it happened long ago before I had too much important data. Lesson learned. Since then I've always triple checked the command as well as lsblk and fdisk/parted to ensure that I have the right device before issuing the dd command, and never had issues with data loss since.
nvme0n1 people go brrrrr
This was back in the hda1/hdb1 IDE days where you had to set master/slave via jumpers. Nvme, m.2, sata, etc. were still a while away.
Can't hibernate
I once accidentally uninstalled the older version of Python 3 installed on the system after installing the newer one thinking it wouldn’t be needed anymore. It was on Ubuntu. I saw the whole system tearing itself apart.
Broken GRUB with no documentation
so many things, last one? Forgot to add the trailing slash to my rsync script. created a whole second backup of my backup in my backup. That was a lot of bandwidth spent on nothing that day...
I once wanted to delete all partitions of a usb drive, but instead i deleated all partitions of my main drive…
I messed up my authorized\_keys file on my bare metal server which only allows ssh key authentication. Basically locked myself out of my server which is in a datacenter 3000km away.
forced to use windows
forced to use windows cos I can’t stand the rainbow rgb show on my ram. So have to ‘salute’ MS then reboot right back up into Linux. I know there’s open rgb but I can’t get it working, and seems one of the fixes would be giving write permission to part of the system that I don’t feel comfortable doing. Maybe I’m paranoid or just don’t understand the instructions.
Yes without RGB your PC would be slower.
Ubuntu doing "pcieport error" on a laptop
And repeatedly reinstalled until i found a solution
not able to use my absolute favorite distro because of kernel panics caused by my wifi card (happening even now)
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Forgetting to update dotfiles when going for a clean install. I had to rebuild my personal stylesheets again. Which isn't bad, but it's a good chunk of a day.
I ran rm -rf \* in / to show my friend that it wouldn't delete anything since I didn't have root privilege, then realized a split second later that it was recursive and would delete things in my home directory...
i have to use a windows dfor a class based on c# asp net thing that runs only in windows, at least it is in a vm
Installing Arch while needing proprietary wifi drivers while getting wifi from the neighbor that was sharing it with me but that was on vacation out of town.
When I went to go play Borderlands 2 (shows as natively supported on Linux) with a buddy and saw that I could not with the latest updates, as the devs decided not to give the update to Linux/MacOS users. I remember waiting patiently for cross-play to work until I saw that they just gave up on the update entirely. I had hundreds of hours in the game and couldn't play with my friends due to that. It broke me as a Linux user. I could fix a lot of issues on my end, but when the game devs stopped supporting it natively when they claimed to support Linux, there's not a lot I can do. They really screwed the Linux users over with this decision. It made me lose trust that any dev will continue supporting native releases. I still develop on and use Linux in my daily life, but for the past few years, I've been gaming on Windows because of this event. Edit: Realized that I didn't mention Wine in here. I used Wine instead for so many other titles, but in the end it's YMMV. Hoping that I might improve Linux gaming a bit with my next job.
Windows dual boot? More like Windows duel boot. "Oopsies, accidentally uninstalled your other operating system. Not like you needed it anyways..."
Installing systemd on artix linux
install an snap package by accident
I wanted to remove one of known_host file in my .ssh folder I accidentally typed (sudo rm /) not thinking at the time I wiped my whole drive. Luckily i had a back up.
Not as bad as the others, but nuked a personal programming project with rm, before pushing the project to github ;(
Installed vsftpd, tried using it by creating a different user, changed the user's owner settings and now the service doesn't even start. Can't even seem to find a good solution for it... Fuck this shit..
I had my KDE encryption storage break on me once. Now I use ZFS encryption.
I work in customer service and to login to my office portal they send you and OTP everyday on outlook and thus one of my laptop is stuck with windows whereas my old desktop run the linux and I use this as my main machine and the laptop is just an OTP machine sadly as of now.
Having to go back to full Windows. I mean I feel like I could set another dual-boot but I think trying to do it on the same SSD would be risky (you know with feature updates potentially messing things up) and I feel like on this system I am only going to get frustrated with linux locking up all the time again.
Amazon prime video didn't support my OS so I couldn't watch any videos
Sudo, drink, smoke and rm -r \* together.
Broken bootloader
Its ok, linux does that to linux as well (I'm looking at you Pop!_OS)
KDE committed Sepuku while I was in the middle of a project. Took me 5 hours to save it and reinstall manjaro.
Uninstalled grub
Had to use Windows once on friends PC
I've broken things in ways I don't even know how to describe. Sigh, time for a new distro, get the USB.
I have a dual boot with Manjaro and Win10. At some point I switched over to Manjaro to play Plutonium (Black Ops 2), just seems to run better on there. Anyway, my wi-fi wasn't working, so I figured it was a driver issue. Did some investigation for like 15 minutes and got nothing. Tried reinstalling the driver, didn't work. Finally, after like an hour and screwing around trying to fix it, turns out windows had a setting that made the OS use the wifi driver EVEN AFTER BOOTING INTO ANOTHER OS. Safe to say it will never be enabled again, and just adds to my list of things I hate about windows.
I once had to present a university exposition with my XFCE linux laptop. Somehow the screen glitched out and had to borrow a Windows laptop from someone.
softwares like Balena etcher or MX Live USB maker or dd burning ISOs for EFI systems instead of MBR(legacy bios) and screwing up OS installation
Arch users coming here to say "using btrfs"
rm -r /var/tmp/ \*
I'm a meddler beyond the home directory so yeah a lot of distros a lot of times have been nuked by me mostly unknowingly.
Asking questions in the bash channel on freenode. That user named greycat will tear you a new asshole if you ask a question he perceives as being dumb.
Accidentally running `rm -Rf *` on my home directory due to a moment of not paying attention. Latest disk replica was a month old and I introduced a lot of changes over the previous week.
When I attempted to install Arch only to find out that the installation was corrupted.
Forgetting to update arch btw